Re: /usr/ports/UPDATING announcement (was: Re: Xorg built fails on CURRENT: can't find Xauth.h)

From: Dan Langille <dan_at_langille.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:51:44 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 July 2004 19:00, Joan Picanyol wrote:
>
> > > I'm all for announcing it.  I never heard of it until last week.  I too
> > > was told to read it, I was stupid for not reading it, why aren't you
> > > reading it
> > Me too :o
>
> [...]
>
> > > It needs to go out on freebsd-announce IMHO.
> >
> > And the Handbook as well.
>
> That's all somewhat beside the point, IMHO (although it really should be
> documented in the handbook). It was announced (here), many people saw it,
> others didn't. And people will still miss things regardless of how many
> places you announce them in.

That is not an excuse for not announcing in the appropriate places.

> The most effective way to spread the news actually _is_ the process you've
> been going through: Someone tells you in a more or less friendly way about
> some new thing (perhaps after you've been complaining about something in a
> more or less friendly way because you missed an announcement). Just ignore
> the bozos who call you dumb and care about the useful pieces of
> information. :)

Yep, and if it had been sent to freebsd-announce, many more people would
have read about it.  current_at_ and doc_at_ is insufficient.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/
Received on Wed Jul 28 2004 - 16:51:46 UTC

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